Men's interest
Rifle
Steyr Zephyr II .22 Long Rifle
Every rifleman’s gun rack should hold at least one serious, high-quality .22. That’s not an exact quote, but it’s as close as possible, drawing on memory going back 50 years. Colonel Townsend Whelen wrote those words, and they have stuck with me despite the ravages of time.
7 min |
Nobember - December 2018
Rifle
The Truth About Groups
Sometimes I think gun writers have over the decades, done a great disservice to American riflemen by emphasizing shooting groups. The truth is shooting groups can be a great aid in marksmanship, or it can serve no purpose at all. The difference is in how shooting groups is viewed by the rifleman.
3 min |
January - February 2019
Rifle
.22 Match Ammunition
Testing Loads with Three Very Different Rifles.
7 min |
January - February 2019
Rifle
.243 Winchester
Lock, Stock & Barrel.
6 min |
January - February 2019
Rifle
Spike Driver .454 Casull
Big Horn Armory began developing a new lever-action rifle in 2008 that became known as the Model 89 Spike Driver, with production underway in late 2012.
7 min |
March - April 2019
Rifle
Ballistic Data Xchange Technology
A RIFLEMAN’S OPTICS
5 min |
March - April 2019
Rifle
Zeroing Iron Front Sights
DOWN RANGE by Mike Venturino.
4 min |
March - April 2019
Rifle
.17 Winchester Super Mag
LOCK, STOCK & BARREL.
6 min |
March - April 2019
Rifle
.260 Remington
It may sound like sacrilege to hunters and shooters who preach cartridge ballistics like bible verse, but any suitable bullet at a half way decent velocity that punches a hole through the ribs and lungs of game animals promptly results in dead game, regardless of the cartridge.
7 min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
6.5 Winchester Short Magnum
There are so many different rifle cartridges that there is no tangible reason to add expense and trouble by working with a wildcat, but the intangibles attract us.
10 min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge
The popularity of 6.5mm (.264) cartridges in the U.S. has wavered for more than 60 years.
9 min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
6.5-06
As any thoughtful shooter knows, our sport is full of deep questions, from ethics to “hard” science. One such question is whether the performance gap between the .25-06 Remington and .270 Winchester amounts to anything.
10+ min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
6.5 Short Action Ultra Magnum
We will never know for certain who was first to neck down the 7mm Remington Short Action Ultra Mag case for .264-inch bullets, but George Gardner of GA Precision is the person who put the wildcat on the map. In addition to being a serious participant in Precision Rifle Series competition, he is one of its strongest supporters as well.
4 min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
6.5 Creedmoor
About the time shooters start imagining that every gap among commercial rifle cartridges has been filled, another round fills a crack so small most of us didn’t know it existed. Among the recent crack-fillers is a Hornady creation called the 6.5 Creedmoor.
7 min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
6.5 Japanese And Italian
A fact little recognized among many students of World War II history is that most major combatant nations used infantry rifles and cartridges designed in the nineteenth century.
8 min |
Special Edition Fall 2019
Rifle
.280 Remington
As a boy, there were more shotguns than rifles in our house, and even those 20 and 12 gauges were neglected until late summer.
6 min |
September - October 2018
Rifle
Rifle Barrel Bedding
Barrel bedding is an often hotly debated subject, with strong opinions for the virtues of free floating and equally good cases made for partial and full-length bedding. Based on the ongoing controversy, it is with certain reservations that I share a few thoughts and experiences.
6 min |
September - October 2018
Rifle
Long-Range Optics, Tools And Technology
Most rifle shooters fire a few shots at a target before hunting season opens, and a few more during deer season. During the remainder of the year, the rifles sit in the back corner of a closet. Formal and casual long-range target shooting, though, provide the opportunity to shoot all year in different conditions to increase skill, learn about ballistics and the mysteries of bullets in flight.
5 min |
September - October 2018
Rifle
Montana Rifle- Love At First Shot
An early look at montana rifles long-range rigs
8 min |
September - October 2018
Rifle
WinchEster Model 1873
Shooting the Latest Saddle Ring Carbine
7 min |
September - October 2018
Rifle
Browning's Lever Rifle
PRAISE FOR A MODERN CLASSIC
8 min |
September - October 2018
Rifle
Down Range
Set triggers are an anachronism; a holdover from a bygone era. Immensely popular in their heyday, my bet would be that the vast majority of today’s riflemen and hunters are not familiar with them at all. In simple terms, a “set trigger” is a mechanism by which a rifle is fired with a trigger pull weight measured in ounces instead of pounds. It is meant for precise shooting and not for fast shooting – or what some hunters might call “snap” shooting.
3 min |
Nobember - December 2018
Rifle
Custom Corner
As a kid running around the farm during the summer, I always had my uncle’s little Winchester single shot to ply the fields for small game. At that time it seemed every manufacturer had a rimfire rifle of some kind, so it was not uncommon for Remington to also have one of its own on the market. One of the more popular rifles was the Model 12 pump, or slide action, introduced in 1909, and for this installment of “Custom Corner,” we have one reworked and decorated to the highest degree.
1 min |
Nobember - December 2018
Rifle
Legendary Arms Works
Testing a New .25-06 Remington.
7 min |
March - April 2019
Rifle
British Pattern 1914 .303
When the British entered World War I, their army actually wanted to transition to a more modern rifle than its Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) chambered for the likewise obsolete .303 British cartridge, which originated in the late 1880s as a black-powder cartridge.
5 min |
Rifle Special Edition 2017
Rifle
British .455 Webley Revolver
No nation other than the United States had a greater or longer-lived affair with the revolver than did the British.
8 min |
Rifle Special Edition 2017
Rifle
U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, Model 1903
Probably no other firearm has influenced American riflemen and hunters as much as the Model 1903 “Springfield.”
8 min |
Rifle Special Edition 2017
Rifle
Lee-Enfield No. 1, Mk III
The British Army went to war in 1914 with a rifle it believed to be obsolete and a cartridge that was ballistically inferior to those of its enemies.
8 min |
Rifle Special Edition 2017
Rifle
Germany's Luger And Mauser Pistols
World War I legitimized the semiautomatic pistol.
7 min |
Rifle Special Edition 2017
Rifle
Mossberg MVP Patrol 5.56 NATO
Shortly after Mossberg announced the MVP (Mossberg Varmint Predator) rifle in 2011, I was invited to spend three days in central Oregon shooting ground squirrels and hunting coyotes with several model variations chambered in 5.56 NATO and .204 Ruger. I fired in excess of 1,500 rounds through several rifles that were accurate and very interesting.
3 min |